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 REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON RECLAIMED LAND. 



With Mr. Joseph Illsley, of Newbury, and John Barker, 

 of North Andover, I visited the farm of Charles R. Ander- 

 son and Sons, at West Boxford. on the tirst day of July 

 last, and by the splendid growth of the Timothy, Peas, etc., 

 upon what had been common meadow hind, we, as the 

 Committee on Reclaimed Meadow and Underdraining, 

 awarded them the Society's Premium of $15.00. 



Enclosed are their statements, 



For the Committee, 



Andrew Nichols, Chairman. 



STATEMENT OP CHARLES R, ANDERSON. 



The piece of meadow we offer for the society's premium 

 contains about one and one-half acres. The soil is a dark 

 loam with a clay sand subsoil, and when 'we begun opera- 

 tions upon it, about ten years ago, a rough piece of meadow, 

 covered with hassocks, clumps of bushes and cranberry 

 vines. We dug a ditch through the centre of the meadow 

 32 rods longf and laid a stone drainagfe about eio-lit inches 

 stjuare, an outlet for the water. We then dug ditches each 

 side of the main ditch about thirty feet apart and put in 

 two inch tile ; we then ploughed the meadow, we hauled off 

 the roots and hassocks, we hauled on about one hundred 

 and fifty loads of sandy gravel, and the next season we 

 ploughed the gravel in. This piece of meadow has been in 

 cultivation ever since, with the exception of about | of an 

 acre, which we seeded down to grass two years ago. Las^ 

 year we didn't weigh the hay, but we think there was about 



